[MickyD]

Dan (doona) and I (and possibly others - read this as an invite ) are headed up to Sydney on the Australia Day weekend. Partially to catch up with people at PITS, and partially 'cos I need to do 7500k's between now and the end of March....

Our tentative plans at this stage are:
Friday - Drive Up
Friday Night - ??????

Saturday: do a bit of random sightseeing
Saturday night: ?????

Sunday Morning: I hear there's a place that sells Pies north of Sydney somewhere??

Sunday afternoon: head back home.

now, as well as warning people of our imminent arrival, I thought I'd ask if anyone knew of a good place to stay. By good, I mean safe parking for the car, and not ludicrously expensive. I'm 99% sure we'd be sharing a room (a room that is, not a bed ), so I'm open to suggestions....

mpd.

[OZChris]

Sounds like a plan. I wonder how I sell this to the missus?

Certainly would help me run-in the new S.

[ScottyB]

oooo excellent

Count me in for anything you guys decide to do up around the Coast

As to accoms, I could only recommend places in Newey which probably aren't much use to you!


Look forward to catching up with you (and meeting some of you )

[ScottyB]

I will have all that weekend free too - if you're keen to do drives both days, seeing as none of you have seen the Pirates haunts, could probably add both Wollombi and Wisemans to the drive list. One for Saturday, one for Sunday

Wisemans would probably be better suited for the Sunday, as it heads you back towards Sydney for the journey home whereas Wollombi heads you North - probably better suited to Saturday...

That is unless you have 'real' sightseeing to do in Sydney on the Saturday

[play fife]

Quote: Originally Posted by MiM

Certainly would help me run-in the new S.

Not long now Chris by the sounds of it.

When are you expecting to take delivery ?

Daniel

[Baker]

Sounds good, I'll be in for that!

[OZChris]

Quote: Originally Posted by play fife

Not long now Chris by the sounds of it.

When are you expecting to take delivery ?

Daniel

Thanks Daniel

I hope to take delivery mid-Jan

Cheers
Chris

/runs off to continue negotiations with the boss

[doona]

Wow I would love to come along for this trip up to Sydney... hold on, I already am... damit why am I always the last to know wat I am doing.

-Dan

[Gr1zzLy]

cool... well I'm up for a sunday wiseman's run.

For accom where abts do you want to stay? generally you can hire apartments in the city that come with parking for a few hundred bucks. If you want to be in the city try places like the Medina. Otherwise, you can stay out near Macquarie (abt 20-30min drive to CBD). There's like a hotel there that's pretty good I heard. Can't remember the name off the top of my head.

[poki]

I have nothing constructive or useful to add to this thread except

YAY!!

[MickyD]

Without having spoken to Dan about it, I was thinking I'd be fine with being a little bit out of the CBD, since it'll mean the hotel will be cheaper (I was budgeting around the $100ish per night for the 2 person room), I found a website earlier that has special offers for hotels that have rooms available 2 weeks out, some of them were offering rooms that are normally $200+ for about $110, so I'll check it out closer to the date....

[maryc]

without knowing what site you looked up, try needitnow.com.au; wotif.com.au and lastminute.com.au. Slight differences in pricing and conditions for the same property on each of them.

[minigolf]

Cool. I'll try and make it up for PITS on Sunday.

[poki]

Also, having spent a month of this year working in a motel I can also tell you that they generally only stick a couple of rooms up and if someone snaffles them from under you - they should (if reasonable, depends on the management) let you have one of their 40 other empty rooms for the same price.

Add quickbeds.com.au to Mary's list too

[IML337]

Liam what was the Vibe in Milsons Point worth for a twin room? I can provide parking in my apartment building (next door to the Vibe)

oh crap, I may be away on a bucks weekend... I'll get back to you ASAP

[minigolf]

Can't remember off the top of my head, but $140-160ish rings a bell. Great location too. The Hotel also provides parking (an additional $16.50), but when we stayed there I parked nearby at my boss' mum's place.

[IML337]

geez for $16.50 you'd just park in the building. I hope I'm around, we can party on the roof at my place

[minigolf]

$16.50 would get you a couple of week's parking in Canberra.

[Todd!]

If I can get a lift with someone, I would love to come along

I'm a great navigator.

Todd

[IML337]

damn, I'm out - bucks weekend on the 28th/29th Jan, and I think most of the guys are crashing at my place. Maybe Friday night we could go to Harry's for a pie then go for a quick spin somewhere?